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     <h1>Queen Elizabeth II.</h1>

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    <p><strong>Elizabeth II</strong> (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April
      1926) is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_United_Kingdom">Queen of the United Kingdom</a>and
      the other <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_realm">Commonwealth realms</a>.</p>
    <p>Elizabeth was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London">London</a> as
      the first child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_George_VI">King George VI</a> and
      <a
      href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_The_Queen_Mother">Queen Elizabeth</a>, and she was educated privately at home. Her father
        acceded to the throne on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VIII_abdication_crisis">abdication</a> of
        his brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward_VIII">King Edward VIII</a> in
        1936, from which time she was the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heir_presumptive">heir presumptive</a>.
        She began to undertake public duties <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United_Kingdom_during_World_War_II">during the Second World War</a>,
        serving in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_Territorial_Service">Auxiliary Territorial Service</a>.
        In 1947, she married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh">Philip, Duke of Edinburgh</a>,
        a former prince of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece">Greece</a> and
        <a
        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark">Denmark</a>, with whom she has four children: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles,_Prince_of_Wales">Charles, Prince of Wales</a>;
          <a
          href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne,_Princess_Royal">Anne, Princess Royal</a>; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew,_Duke_of_York">Andrew, Duke of York</a>;
            and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward,_Earl_of_Wessex">Edward, Earl of Wessex</a>.</p>
    <p>When her father died in February 1952, she became <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_the_Commonwealth">Head of the Commonwealth</a> and
      <a
      href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_regnant">queen regnant</a>of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United
        Kingdom, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada">Canada</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia">Australia</a>,
        <a
        href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand">New Zealand</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa">South Africa</a>,
          <a
          href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_Pakistan">Pakistan</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_of_Ceylon">Ceylon</a>.</p>
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